Just like every commander in history besieged on a mountain, Vansco Aldame quickly discovered that his most urgent shortage was not food or ammunition, but water.
In fact, mountains don't necessarily have no water sources, but unfortunately, the 5-0 Heights isn't a true mountain; it's just a small hill lacking in vegetation cover.
However, it's not small enough to be pierced by a few pickaxes held by the "Twelfth Legion"—at least not before everyone in the "Twelfth Legion" dies of thirst.
Aldame immediately ordered the collection of all the soldiers' water pouches for unified distribution and sent people down the high ground at night to look for water in the forest.
But it was like trying to irrigate a large field while holding in urine—painstaking, yet not quenching the thirst.
Moreover, even if the soldiers of the "Twelfth Legion" carried nothing but water pouches, the water would still not be enough.
